Today's GSM Platform
Today's GSM GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) is the technology that underpins most of the world's mobile phone networks. The GSM platform is a hugely successful wireless technology and an unprecedented story of global achievement and cooperation. GSM has become the world's fastest growing communications technology of all time and the leading global mobile standard, spanning 218 countries.
Today, GSM technology is in use by more than one in three of the world's population - by June 2008 there were over 2 billion GSM subscribers, representing approximately 86% of the world's cellular market. The growth of GSM continues unabated with almost 400 million new customers in the last 12 months (source: www.wirelessintelligence.com)
The progress hasn't stopped there. Today's GSM platform is living, growing and evolving and already offers an expanded and feature-rich 'family' of voice and multimedia services.
  3G/UMTS - A New & Impatient Reality
[May 05]
The principal project of the Bankinter Foundation is the Future Trends Forum. Some of the most prestigious minds seeking to anticipate the immediate future, with a horizon of 3-6 years, detecting social trends, economic trends and technological currents on the takeoff runway, analysing their potential implication in various contexts and determining the conclusions that should be disseminated to the strategic points of society.
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Setting the record straight! Is W-CDMA the same as UMTS? Or is UMTS part of GSM? Presumably W-CDMA is a member of the CDMA family? No? Well, which one means the same as 3G?
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Wireless technology continues to evolve at a rapid pace and along with it so too does the language used by the wireless industry
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The GSM Association (GSMA) is a global trade association that represents the interests of more than 620 GSM mobile operators.
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